Professor Shabbar Jaffar

Joined LSTM on 1^st July 2015. Previously Professor of Epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM).

Lived in The Gambia (3-years), Uganda (6 months), South Africa (12 months – on sabbatical) and Malawi (6 months).

• FRCP (2011, Edinburgh) (non-clinical fellow)
• PhD Epidemiology (2001, LSHTM),
• MSc Biometry (1990, Reading University).

Background in global health trials of management strategies for HIV-infection and associated co-infections. Currently focussed on studies on the prevention and management of HIV-infection, diabetes and hypertension, funded by the NIHR and EU.

Research grants:

Horizon 2020. Integrating and decentralising diabetes and hypertension services in Africa.

£4.0m. Role: co-ordinator. 2018 – 2021:      

NIHR Global Health Research Group on prevention and management of non-communicable

diseases and HIV-infection in Africa. Role Director. £2m. 2016 – 2019:      

Wellcome Trust Malawi Epidemiology and Intervention Research Unit: addressing public health research. priorities through partnership. £5,000,000. 2012 to 2016. Strategic Award (co-applicant).

EDCTP (European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership). Approximately £3m. Reduction of early mortality among HIV-infected subjects starting antiretroviral therapy in Tanzania and Zambia: a randomised trial (The REMSTART trial). co-PI. 2011 – 2015

UK Medical Research Council. A phase III randomised controlled trial of oral fluconazole plus flucytosine versus amphotericin B-based therapy for one or two weeks for initial treatment of HIV-associated cryptococcal meningitis. Approx £3.0m. Role: co-applicant (PI Prof Tom Harrison, St Georges Medical School University of London).   2011-2017

Other relevant expertise, professional memberships etc.:

Panel member, Global Health (UF-5), Swedish Research Council (2015 -

Chair, EDCTP Scientific Advisory Committee (2008-2013).

Joint Editor, Tropical Medicine and International Health (2004 – 2015)